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Months in Year 1688: January February March April May June July August September October November

Birthdays 1 - 27 of 27

Jan 18th - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
Jan 23rd - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
Jan 25th - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
Jan 28th - Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter
Jan 29th - Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
Feb 4th - Pierre De Marivaux, Paris France, writer (Marianne)
Feb 7th - Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
Mar 25th - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
Apr 4th - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
Apr 15th - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
May 21st - Alexander Pope, London, English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer) (d.1744)
May 25th - Christian August Jacobi, composer
Jun 10th - James Francis Edward Stuart 'The old Pretender', claimed thrones of England and Scotland as James III/James VIII (d. 1766)
Jul 1st - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
Jul 19th - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
Aug 14th - Frederik Willem I, king of Prussia (bodyguard of giants)
Aug 15th - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
Sep 5th - Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Fight of Kings & Mice)
Sep 12th - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731)
Poet Alexander Pope (May 21st) Sep 13th - Luca Antonio Praedieri, composer
Sep 17th - Maria Luisa of Savoy, first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714)
Sep 26th - Willem J 's-Gravesande, Dutch physicist
Oct 17th - Domenico Zipoli, composer
Oct 19th - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
Oct 22nd - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
Nov 11th - Lorenzo Somis, composer
Nov 15th - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)